[Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax
Albert Y. C. Lai
trebla at vex.net
Fri Jun 3 18:02:56 CEST 2011
I propose that only {- -} is comment; that is, -- is an operator token
and not a marker of comments.
Two birds in one stone:
1. Removes the cause of the mistake of writing a haddock comment as --|
That is, if no one writes any comment with -- then no one writes any
haddock comment with --| --^ etc.
2. Opens up the option of using -- for prefix unary negation, so that -
is unambiguously infix subtraction and therefore (- x) is consistently
right sectioning of infix subtraction.
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